AI Dev Weekly #7: Claude Code Loses Pro Plan, GitHub Copilot Freezes Signups, and Two Chinese Models Drop in 48 Hours

AI Dev Weekly is a Thursday series where I cover the week's most important AI developer news, with my take as someone who actually uses these tools daily. The flat-rate AI subscription era ended this week. Anthropic pulled Claude Code from the $20 Pro plan. GitHub froze all new Copilot signups. And while Western companies were busy raising prices, two Chinese labs dropped frontier models within 48 hours of each other. Let's get into it. Claude Code removed from Pro plan Anthropic quietly removed